Mystic Writers
About Us
The Mystic Writers formed in the summer of 2017 in Mystic, CT, when an evening on a screened-in porch sparked interest in conversation, collaboration, and mutual support. We meet regularly to balance the professional necessity of working alone with the satisfaction of interacting with other writers. Eight strong, we are all on different paths – memoirists, novelists, journalists – and yet we have a common vision: to write as well as we can and to tell stories that matter.
Our Authors
Lisa Brownell
Fiction
Ruth W. Crocker
Writer
Susan B. Kietzman
Fiction
Jane H. Percy
Non-fiction, Poetry
The Latest from our Blog
Fly, Button, Trick, Plant
What you’re about to read was written 15 years ago, for an NPR fiction writing contest. I can’t remember the word limit…but the entry was to include...
Hope, faith and book writing
Writing a book is a leap of faith – faith in yourself, in the years-long process of producing the work, and in the belief that the written word makes...
Get Me Rewrite!
You don’t have to be a journalist – although you may have to be of a certain age – to recognize the entreaty “Get me rewrite!” from vintage scenes of...
Lost for Words
Have you ever heard someone say, after a traumatic or startling event: “I just can’t talk about it right now”? They may describe themselves as “lost...
Hamlet and the Coach
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the most often performed play in the canon and the subject of an endless array of scholarly papers. So it’s not...
Why Write Ghost Stories?
If someone asked me, “Do you believe in ghosts and the supernatural?” I would reply, “Of course not! Well — not really.” A longer, more truthful...
Reading Aloud
In April it was “The Great Gatsby,” and in August it will be “Moby-Dick.” Amazingly, in a world increasingly defined by technology, people are still...
In which a debut author has her first book launch
For five years I have been immersed in various stages of writing “Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery.” Yet the act of writing a book, and...
The Book Launch
Last week, I gleefully attended the book launch for Saving Ellen, a debut memoir by fellow Mystic Writer Maura Casey. Why gleefully? Two reasons:...
